Design support system capable of reducing design error

Abstract

A design support system is constituted for a user to design a construction material (a fender or the like) and to obtain the result of the designing through connection to a wave server. The system includes a database performing calculation and output based on data entered by the user, and storing the process thereof. The calculation result can be obtained by the user by e.g. downloading, and also is recorded into the database. A person on a maker side, different from the user, may refer to the database in order to check a design error.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A design support system constituted for a user to design a construction material and to obtain a result of the designing through connection to a web server, comprising: 
 a database performing calculation and output based on data entered by said user, and storing a process of the calculation and the output,    wherein said user can obtain a result of the calculation, and a person different from said user can check the designing by referring to said database.    
     
     
         2 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , comprising a function of automatically creating a drawing for one of a product and a system from one of the data entered by said user and the result calculated from the data.  
     
     
         3 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , comprising a function of gathering and managing customer information entered by said user.  
     
     
         4 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , comprising a function of managing a condition for designing and a result of designing in a database on a system side.  
     
     
         5 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , comprising a function capable of, when a revision is made to a designing procedure and other processes, specifying and notifying a user who performed a designing affected by said revision.  
     
     
         6 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , wherein authentication is performed for whether or not a connection is allowed to a database server capable of providing information related to performance of a material and a design selecting procedure, based on individual information entered by said user.  
     
     
         7 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , wherein said user is charged in accordance with connection time of said user to the system.  
     
     
         8 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , wherein a user to be charged is discriminated from a user not to be charged.  
     
     
         9 . The design support system according to  claim 1 , wherein 
 said construction material includes a fender, and    said system displays a list of selectable products based on a calculation result of an amount of energy absorption and a reaction force, and provides a selection process report and a drawing of a performance characteristic for a specific type selected from said list.